Niko Stratis

Hey friends, my debut book, The Dad Rock That Made Me a Woman, is out in just over a month (May 6) via @UTexasPress ! You can pre-order wherever you buy books!

Happy 1 month anniversary to the release of my debut book, The Dad Rock That Made Me a Woman. Thank you to everyone who has grabbed a copy, read it, written me/posted about it, listened to the audiobook, and more. Thank you everyone who helped get me here, here's to keeping on.

"My inescapable conclusion has become that Israel is committing genocide against the Palestinian people," -- Israeli-American historian and genocide scholar Omer Bartov in the NY Times:

We spoke with Niko Stratis about the tension between memory and meaning, evolving tastes, and using music to fill in the gaps in her new book, 'The Dad Rock That Made Me a Woman.' Read the full Q&A here: pastemagazine.com/?p=405335

In an exclusive edited extract from Niko Stratis’s new book The Dad Rock That Made Me A Woman, the award-winning Canadian writer explores trans identity, the music of the American heartlands and how the Boss changed her life for good How Springsteen Helped Me Come Out…

I'm the perfect age (over 40) to be genuinely surprised by this news, be really curious to see where they go from here

boycott the new york times how tf are you guys still paying for that shit

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Thrill of a lifetime to chat w @JeremyXBolm for @TheFirstEverPod

My guest tomorrow on @TheFirstEverPod is author / culture writer @nikostratis ! Her book “The Dad Rock That Made Me a Woman” is out now! I loved it! Subscribe now wherever you enjoy podcasts: linktr.ee/thefirsteverpo…

The Wonder Years at Warped Tour: "Protect trans youth, fuck ICE, and free Palestine"

If my entire neighbourhood hated my stupid guts I wouldn't write the newspaper asking if it's somehow everyone else's fault

Me talking about how i've been alive for every Nintendo console launch

Toronto! This is tomorrow! I would love to hang out with you and sign your books!

SOMETHING OLD, SOMETHING NEW “Primarily this is a place for people to dress,” Lalonde says. But over the past several years, people have increasingly come to her to ask, “Who am I?” @nikostratis meets Andréa Lalonde of Nouveau Riche Vintage westendphoenix.com/stories/someth…

nobody was angry at my pro government rally where everything we want is happening and supported by everyone with power!

Reading this while watching a livestream of city council debating whether they should restrict protests downtown because, in the words of a councillor who represents Don valley west, “my constituents are afraid to go to the symphony”

SOMETHING OLD, SOMETHING NEW Andréa Lalonde’s Nouveau Riche Vintage is a place where people go to discover who they are and what their clothes might help define. The lastest from the Gotham issue by @nikostratis 📷: @jalanimorgan westendphoenix.com/stories/someth…

SOMETHING OLD, SOMETHING NEW “I can often tell when a garment is right for someone or not. And I’ve gotten more comfortable pushing people where they need to be pushed” @nikostratis visits Nouveau Riche Vintage, fron the latest WEP. 📷: @jalanimorgan westendphoenix.com/stories/someth…

Ahmed al-Dali lost his leg in an Israeli airstrike in 2014, but spent the subsequent decade defying his disability – as a para-footballer and key member of the Gaza Sunbirds para-cycling team. He was killed by another Israeli airstrike this week. theguardian.com/global-develop…

“I thought the only way to be alive was to just one day disappear.” In her desperation to live freely as a trans woman, writer @nikostratis started making plans: to fake her own death, to secede from her family and home, and to start over, alone. thewalrus.ca/the-ballad-of-…